A Hell Of A Year!

[BobC]

So given in this past year we've had to deal with the pandemic, historically unprecented price surges, the privatization of PSA, the news of Topps looking to go public, the dreams and fears of AI finally being looked into by the TPG community, the craziness of TPG grading and it's backlogs, submission suspensions, and unprecedented grading fee increases, the emergence of new, major players in the TPG industry, the potential partnering of Goldin and PSA in the card business, the emergence of NFTs, the sudden booting of PWCC from Ebay amidst accusations of shill bidding, and now the news that Topps is losing its license to produce MLB cards, what the hell is next..........ragnarok, the apocalypse, WW III, an alien invasion???

And the year isn't even much more than half over yet!

Has our hobby ever seen this much, happening this soon, in this short of a time period before? This seems almost surreal at this point and who knows where things are headed now.

Anyone care to share any thoughts or feelings on all these overall things that are happening to our hobby all at once, and the future impact(s) they may have on it? No need to get into any of the aforementioned specific issues on this thread as all these occurences and events have already been covered in other threads, multiples in some cases.

Frankly, for myself, I have no clue what it all means and where things may go from here. Thoughts anyone?

If this is posted in the wrong place, feel free to move to the proper forum. Figured since most of the specific threads for all the things happening were already on the main forum, that would be the place for this thread as well.